Bad Company 2 patch reaches Steam

[Attachment 6678]It took a couple days, but the recently talked about Bad Company 2 patch has finally been rolled out to Steam users. The patch addresses a heap of minor bugs most of us have never noticed, and doesn't move to improve the user interface or fix any of the gameplay issues people are having. Enjoy!

- Fixed: Server Browser - Joining a password protected server results in a connection timeout

- Fixed: Server Browser auto updating server list when reopened causing a timeout issue

- Fixed: Password issue during Friend invites

- Fixed: Password text field issue on joining a password protected server

- Fixed: Flickering ship on Arica Harbor

- Fixed: Clan tags that use numbers in them displaying a 0 on the Select Spawn Point screen

- Fixed: Display issue on long server names

- Fixed: Mortar Strike icon not updating (Beta issue)

- Fixed: No Exit Game menu option appearing at the end of some rounds.

- Fixed: Flickering user rank icon (appeared as an animated gif) when user reaches rank 10.

- Fixed: Flickering trees and Red Box on Laguna Presa

- Fixed: User is logged out when failing to create a new soldier

- Fixed: Zeus stationary weapon not appearing in stats

- Fixed: Zu23 not appearing in stats

- Fixed: BMD3 AA not appearing in stats

- Fixed: Friend request displaying incorrect Veteran stats

- Fixed: End of Round screen displayed incorrect UAV_Station now displays correct localized text.

- Fixed: K/D ratio displays in the Front End

- Fixed: K/D ratio displays correctly when comparing

- Change: Server browser now defaults to list via Ping first

- Change: News Ticker font support for Spanish, Polish, Russian and Japanese

- Change: New message for server full (reported as I get no message when I try and join a server, it does nothing)

- Change: New message displayed for attempting to join a password protected server without providing a password (reported as I get no message when I try and join a server, it does nothing)

- Change: Displays version number on Front End Legal Screen

- Change: Display of weapon icon during loading screen

a few last minute add ons
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Change: All clan tags will automatically be preceeded by [ and closed off with ] to prevent impersonating other players.

STEAM
Change: The STEAM version of Battlefield Bad Company 2 will no longer have SecuROM on the exe file. Instead it will use Valves own DRM instead.

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what are those mounted machine guns with the shield on em called cause they so need to fix that, can't see through the "glass" on them...

That's a graphics issue (most likely drivers on your end) - as the glass is transparent for the majority of players.

Edit - they still haven't fixed the Garand bug - I havent been able to use it since day 1. :/

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yeah just found on steam forums thats it's only on people with DX9... new comp in a week will be on win7 and should be able to run in DX10 then

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what are those mounted machine guns with the shield on em called cause they so need to fix that, can't see through the "glass" on them...

This is in our tweaks thread...
Not so much a tweak but a fix.
It apears that BC2 is built on intricate shaders for Direct x11 and at present takes a long time to load all the shaders. The fix to force Direct X9 is to reduce those load times and thus pruduce better performance. The downside is it apears to then cause issues with some water but more annoyingly the glass shields on the mounted MG's become blacked out, to fix that you need to remove the Direct x9 line in your settings.ini............

thanks